- Tytuł:
- The relationship between syntactic knowledge and reading comprehension in EFL learners
- Autorzy:
- Morvay, Gabriella
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/780623.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2012-10
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- Tematy:
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syntactic knowledge
nonnative reading comprehension - Opis:
- Via a variety of measurements, 64 Hungarian native speakers in the 12th grade learning English as a foreign language in Slovakia were tested in a cross-sectional correlational study in order to determine the relationship between the ability to process complex syntax and foreign language reading comprehension. The test instruments involved a standardized reading comprehension test in English, and a test of syntactic knowledge in both Hungarian and English, in addition to a background questionnaire in Hungarian. Power correlations and regression analyses rendered results that showed syntactic knowledge to be a statistically significant estimator for foreign language reading comprehension. The study provides evidence that the ability to process complex syntactic structures in a foreign language does contribute to one’s efficient reading comprehension in that language.
- Źródło:
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; 2012, 2, 3; 415-438
2083-5205
2084-1965 - Pojawia się w:
- Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki